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SUÁREZ DE FIGUEROA, CRISTÓBAL. Plaza Universal de Todas Ciencias y Artes. [16], 656, [56] pages. Folio, contemporary sprinkled sheep gilt, top of spine chipped; contents browned, some marginal dampstaining, occasional early underscoring, ink accession number on page 1, clean tear in outer margin of Y4, tear in 3G1 affecting a few letters, 4P1 remargined not affecting text, lacks front free endpaper. Madrid, 1733
First published in 1615 and based in part on the 1585 Piazza Universale of Tommaso Garzoni, a survey of monarchs and rulers, religious orders, the arts and sciences and their practitioners, and miscellaneous occupations. Printing, said to have been invented by Gutenberg in 1440 or 1442, is discussed on pages 596-98, and booksellers on pages 599-600. A description of the geography of the New World (mentioning the island of California) appears on pages 514-16. Palau 323911; this edition not in Alden.
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